Tuesday, June 18, 2013
As another weather warning was just issued this afternoon, it seems appropriate to post this frightening, majestic video of the kind of cloud Yahweh might have spoken out of - a superc…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 04:48PMMonday, June 17, 2013
Dame Emma KirkbyI looked at my partner about halfway through Dame Emma Kirkby's concert at the Boston Early Music Festival last week and had to deadpan, "Are we sad yet?"He could only chuckl…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 02:36PMFriday, June 14, 2013
Paper City from Maciek Janicki on Vimeo.Here is your chance to take a breather from BEMF and check it out.The Hub Review, the guide to everything that matters in Boston and elsewhere.
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 09:36AMThursday, June 13, 2013
Mozart's viola.It's the rare man or woman who is indifferent to the holy relic. Indeed, you could argue the cult of authenticity underpinning our entire system of cultural value finds its ap…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 03:53PMWednesday, June 12, 2013
Ulrike Hofbauer as Princess Almira. Photos: Kathy Wittman.Classical music buffs think they know Handel.But do they?The official story goes that the great German composer, who already h…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 09:00AMMonday, June 10, 2013
A toast to feminist theory - and Kate Shindle, Nancy E. Carroll, and Shannon Esper. Photos: T. Charles Erickson.It's hard to get excited about Gina Gionfriddo's Rapture, Blister, Burn (throu…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 04:47PMSunday, June 9, 2013
A double dose of the author and his favorite subject.This morning I'm pondering the first "half," if you will, of the regional premiere (at Providence's Trinity Rep) of Alan Ayckbourn's…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:27PMWednesday, June 5, 2013
Phil Tayler, Zach Eisenstat and John Ambrosino go . .. well, On the Town. Photos: Mark S. HowardThe original musical On the Town has been so overshadowed by its 1949 film treatme…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 05:51PMFriday, May 31, 2013
Daniel Jones as Hamlet/Bond.It's hard not to like John J. King's From Denmark with Love (through this weekend only at the Boston Playwrights' Theatre) - just as it's hard not to like th…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 02:48PMThursday, May 30, 2013
Composer Mason BatesOk, it's time to play catch up. A vacation and a bad cold have meant little posting of late - my thanks to all those who have been showing up at the site anyway, ho…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 02:27PMFriday, May 24, 2013
Swanilda teaches old Coppelius a lesson about living dolls. Photos: Rosalie O'Connor.Few ballets are as lovable as Coppélia, particularly in the Balanchine version, which Boston Balle…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 05:03PMWednesday, May 22, 2013
The dancers and players of Fanfare - photo: Rosalie O'Connor.I've been meaning to post a note about the Boston Ballet's "Next Generation" performance of almost two weeks ago (!), which proba…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 05:01PMSunday, May 19, 2013
I don't often catch student efforts, but I was intrigued by BU's recent production (it closed last weekend) of Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth, an extravaganza seen about as oft…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 02:52PMThursday, May 16, 2013
David Adkins, Tony Licea and Joel Colodner in Glengarry Glen Ross. Photo: Meghan Moore.The Merrimack Rep is perhaps our leading example of a great theatre constrained by its budget. Th…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 04:33PMWednesday, May 15, 2013
Harry Christophers leads Jephtha in Disney Hall. Photo: Brian van der Brug, Los Angeles Times.I'm late with an appreciation of Handel and Haydn's stunning performance of Jephtha, Handel's fi…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:18AMSunday, May 12, 2013
Paula Plum does her thang in Pericles. Photos: J. Stratton McCradyI was late getting to the Actors' Shakespeare Project's Pericles (which closed this weekend), but honestly, …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:06PMSaturday, May 11, 2013
Patrick Yocum, Bradley Schlagheck, Whitney Jensen and Lawrence Rines in Symphony in C. Photos by Gene Schiavone.At 49 years of age (yes, next season marks their big 5-0), Boston Ballet …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:53AMThursday, May 9, 2013
Tim Spears as Mozart reacts to Salieri's machinations. Photos: Andrew Brilliant.Peter Schaffer's biggest hit, Amadeus (now at the New Rep through May 19), a highly fictionalized accoun…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:55AMTuesday, May 7, 2013
The members of Boston Ballet's Next Generation - Photo: Igor Burlak.There is one dance season event I always look forward to - Boston Ballet's "Next Generation" performance, which showcases …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:34AMTime-Lapse | Earth from Bruce W. Berry Jr on Vimeo.I never tire of looking at the Earth. Particularly from space. If I were younger, stronger, and quite a bit richer, I'd be in l…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:22AMMonday, May 6, 2013
Soprano Susanna PhillipsI first heard the soprano Susanna Phillips (at left) four years ago at Boston Lyric Opera, as Donna Anna in Don Giovanni. And I knew immediately I was listening …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 06:01PMA mariachi band serenades a Beluga whale at the Mystic Aquarium in Connecticut in this touchingly surreal vignette. Apparently the mariachis were at the Aquarium to play for a wedding party,…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 03:46PMSaturday, May 4, 2013
Thomas Hampson, baritoneI'm late with an appreciation of last weekend's appearance by Thomas Hampson at Celebrity Series (who wrap their season this month with the annual Alvin Ailey visit, …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:04PMFriday, May 3, 2013
Chroma at the Royal Ballet - the Boston version may actually be a bit better danced!The two current "must-sees" of the Boston cultural scene are The Flying Dutchman (at Boston Lyric Opera, s…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:41AMA fascinating study from the University of Berkeley on "pay what you can" pricing models reveals an astounding wrinkle in the psychology of the transaction - in a nutshell, revenues rise if …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:21AMWednesday, May 1, 2013
Soprano Allison Oakes and the chorus in BLO's The Flying Dutchman - Photos: Eric AntoniouThere is so much to praise in the singing, conducting, and design of Boston Lyric Opera's new product…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:01AMMonday, April 29, 2013
The temptations of Anton Ego . . .A few eyebrows around town rose (slightly) in reaction to a recent whine from Bill Marx on his website The Arts Fuse. In an April 22 post titled "Why …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:31AMSaturday, April 27, 2013
. . . remember local theatres still need your support! What better weekend than this one to make sure you see that show?The Hub Review, the guide to everything that matters in Bo…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 09:18AMFriday, April 26, 2013
The Large Bathers by Paul CézannePaul Cézanne may be unique among great painters in that, well - he couldn't really paint all that well. I know; that sounds paradoxical; perhaps…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 01:28PMThursday, April 25, 2013
Photo: Cotton Talbot-MinkinMatthew Woods and his Imaginary Beasts are without question the most daring theatrical programmers in the city - and maybe the world. Indeed, Woods seems alm…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:26AMTuesday, April 23, 2013
The place beyond the pecs . . . Ryan Gosling in Pines.It is hard, I admit, for me to argue with Ryan Gosling when he takes his shirt off. As he does immediately in the opening man-cand…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:53PM 
